Contracted to asists with migration of Connect:Direct nodes and Sterling Integrator from on premises AIX servers to an AWS cloud solution.

Contracted to develop PHP based frontend to maintain Steel specification tables held in MySQL on Linux servers. Additionally looked into performance issues and bugs relating to existing C++ code and also provide suggestions for backup solution

Engaged to work on file transfers using Connect:Direct, Sterling File Gateway and Sterling Integrator. Tasks include installation of new nodes, including Secure+. Setup of new routes and user proxies. Creation of new partners, templates and channels in SFG and configuration of 3rd party connections through Sterling Proxy. Additional work includes adding nodes to IBM Control Centre.

Migrated Sterling Secure Proxies, perimeter servers and SSP Control Manager off Windows servers and on to RHEL. Installed and configured Control Centre. Acted as liaison with external companies for the repointing of development SFTP and Connect:Direct transfers to a newer setup including technical support to ease the transition. Extensive use of Sterling File Gateway and Sterling Integrator

Working in file transfer security and part of the team updating Connect:Direct nodes on Solaris, AIX, HPUX and Linux. Also responsible for writing a number of Perl scripts to assist in the node update (i.e. extract Secure+ information and produce data which can be imported into Excel spreadsheets). In addition to this I am used as a point of reference for any *nix related questions.

Worked in the Listed Sales and Trading team on a high profile trading system that executes a significant amount of flow across various divisions. This is a high-throughput, real-time trading system responsible for the trading of Stocks, Listed Derivatives, Bonds, etc..

The role I worked in was as an Integration Engineer, responsible for managing the complex and highly distributed production environment, designing new trading functionality and workflows front to back, deploying upgrades to the system (qa and production), come up with innovative ways to automate work via scripting in Perl, troubleshooting problems, interfacing with traders, etc..

The system comprises of C++ applications running on Linux, with C# and Java trading front ends that run on the user's desktop and communicate using Fix protocol messaging and working in a global team environment which requires someone who can share ideas and express themselves well.

Employed as a Connect:Direct SME for the middleware team, providing project design and build for internal and external facing targets. Software used includes Sterling Integrator, Sterling Secure Proxy and Sterling File Transfer Gateway. These were running on Windows and Linux.

In addition to this I also wrote a number of perl scripts to query the underlying Oracle database in SI and produce volumetric statistics. I was also involved in a number of discussions with the DBA and Operate teams about improving monitoring on the databases used by Connect:Direct. When Tesco Bank migrated from a codelist based transfer to using Sterling File Gateway with Channels and Templates I wrote a number of perl scripts which converted between the two methods, thus reducing the manual effort involved. I was also involved in the migration of SI off a Windows based platform to a Linux one and wrote conversion scripts with perl and SQL to query an mssql database and load the data into the Oracle database.

Further to this I also wrote a number of scripts to emulate file transfers with the time critical portions written in C.